Shuttle for looms



. N.-J WILLIS.

Shuttle for Looms.

No. 225,673. Patented Mar. 16, 1880.

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NEWIEL J. WILLIS, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHUTTLE FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,673, dated March16, 1880.

Application filed August 9, 1879,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWIEL J. WILLIs, of Cambridge, in the county ofMiddleseg: and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovemen tin Shuttles for Looms, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of this improvement is to effectually prevent all splittingor splinterin g of the shuttle near its ends, even when wood of aninferior quality is used.

The invention consists in a wooden shuttle provided with a coveringcomposed of two or more layers of cloth, or cloth and paper-pulp,saturated with the following compounds, viz: Venice turpentine, glue,linseed-oil, shellac, lamp-black, and black lead in equal parts, and asomewhat smaller proportion of White vitriol. The sheets, after beingsaturated, are laid together and passed, while still hot, between ironrollers, which firmly paste the sheets together. The sheets are thenready to be applied as a covering to the shuttle, and, thus applied,render it hard and tough to a remarkable degree and impossible to chipor splinter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a shuttle provided with myimproved covering, broken out so as to exhibit the lay- Fig.2 is atransverse section of the same.

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ment, I do not claim, broadly, a covering for v a shuttle; neither do Iclaim the above compound for any other purpose or use 3 but What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

A shuttle for looms having a body composed of wood provided with acovering consisting of two or more layers of cloth or cloth andpaperpulp saturated with the following compound, viz: Venice turpentine,glue, linseed or other oil, shellac, lamp-black, and

black lead, with or without an admixture of white vitriol, substantiallyas and in the proportions specified.

NEWIEL J. WILLIS. Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, B. W. WILLIAMS.

